Relationship of low cost airlines and budget hotels for tourism development in West Bengal

Accommodation & Transportation are the essential elements of tourism, providing the vital link between the tourist generating areas and tourist destinations. Good accessibility and a comfortable hotel stay are few determinants of fundamental condition for the tourism development in West Bengal. Few challenges these two major industries are facing are skilled manpower, policy and planning decision of different stake holders, uses of technologies, taking care economic benefits for different stake holder and moreover the local community being the key stakeholder, so has to take care for their overall development and involve them for long sustained tourism development of the area. Low Cost airlines and budget hotel are offering the lowest air fares and room rent with the highest consumer value, which encourages tourist of middle income group for long distance travel. Therefore keeping in view the importance and relevance of the low cost airlines and budget hotels for sustainable tourism development, objective of the research is to study the performance and impact of low frill airlines and budget hotel in tourism development of West Bengal. The result of this research points out that the Low cost airlines and budget hotel is important for responding to the current challenges as caused due to tourism development which as whole has an impact on West Bengal tourism.